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3 million kids (mostly boys) are given medication that’s
supposed to make them sit still and focus. But what if schools, not
kids, are the problem? Published on Feb 12, 2019

One former public school student, Cade Summers, tells
John Stossel that he hated the effect of the drugs -- that it was
like he had been "lobotomized." Cade’s parents took him off the
“attention deficit” drugs and sent him to other schools. But Cade
hated them all. "I would come home and I would sometimes just cry,"
Cade tells Stossel. Then he heard of a new type of school in
Austin, Texas. It promised to let kids discuss ideas, and to do
real-world work. But the school, the Academy of Thought and
Industry, is a private school that charges tuition. So Cade started
getting up at 3AM to work in a coffee shop to help pay the tuition.
What kind of school could possibly be worth that to a kid? The
school's founder, Michael Strong, says kids learn best when they
are given actual responsibility, real life work. "Teens need
responsibility ... Ben Franklin, Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison,
started their careers at the age of 12 or 13," he points out.
Nowadays people consider that abusive child labor, Stossel notes.
"I worked as a teen," Strong said. "I loved it. Teens very often
want to work." Strong's schools do many things differently.
Students get Fridays off to work on their own projects. School
starts at 10am. There are no lectures -- instead students read, and
then discuss what they read. That’s different from schools Strong
once attended--and hated. "School is 13 years of how to be passive,
how to be dependent," Strong tells Stossel. "School is about aim,
aim, aim, aim, aim, and never get stuff done. So I want students
who just go out there and get stuff done, fail, get up, try again.
That's how we become creators, entrepreneurs ... We want them to do
what they love now." For Cade, that meant doing a marketing
internship Fridays, where he did actual work. When he completed
Strong's school, he got a job right away -- at a tech startup that
normally requires a college degree. Another Academy graduate runs a
successful metal music festival called "Austin Terror Fest.” All
kids at Strong's schools work on some kind of project. "I'm
currently working on making a web-based chat application," one boy
told us. "I wanna be a programmer. I love programming". A girl at
the school works at a paintball range on weekends. "If they love
paintball, then they should do a business in that,” says Strong.
Most of his students also end up going to college. Strong points
out, “We've had students admitted to top liberal arts colleges.
Bard, Bennington..." "Of course they do well," Stossel interrupts.
"You're charging fat tuition. Only rich kids can afford to go there
and they're going to do well." "The kind of kids that we get come
from all walks of life," Strong responds. "We had a student from
New Jersey... he was incapable of functioning in the highly
structured public school systems ... in the public schools needed a
full time aide ... He was costing the state an enormous amount of
money. He came to our school ... He did not need an aide." "Coming
here is just healing. It's incredible," that student, Josh, told
us. Strong hopes his schools will be a model for other schools that
let kids learn through real world work. That approach works so much
better for some kid that they willingly wake up at 3am to go to
work to help pay tuition. "It was me choosing my life," Cade
says.

Thank you for watching. Have a nice day! ABOUT: Eighty
per cent of Vatican priests are gay and living in the closet,
according to an explosive new book to be published next week.The
570-page expose, titled In the Closet of the Vatican, claims that
four in five clerics in the Roman Catholic Church are
homosexuals - but aren't necessarily sexually active.French
sociologist and journalist Frederic Martel, who spent four years
conducting 1,500 interviews for the book, found that some
priests maintained discreet long term relationships, while others
lived double lives having casual sex with gay partners and using
male prostitutes.He found that a number of clerics spoke of an
unspoken code of the 'closet', with one rule of thumb being that
the more homophobic they were, the more likely they were gay.The
author, a former adviser to the French government, claims the late
Alfonso López Trujillo - a Colombian cardinal who held senior roles
in the Vatican - was an arch-defender of the church's teaching on
homosexuality and contraception while using male prostitutes,
according to Catholic website the Tablet.The book is a
'startling account of corruption and hypocrisy at the heart of the
Vatican', according to British publisher Bloomsbury.In its
marketing material, Bloomsbury claims the book 'reveals secrets'
about celibacy, misogyny and plots against Pope Francis.But critics
of the book said 'it is not always easy to tell when Martel is
trafficking in fact, rumour, eyewitness accounts

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